Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 697 573 716
Rank change year-on-year -124 +143 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 113 87 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.18% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.20% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 83 58 51
10th Percentile £65,000 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 108,916 44,178 72,902
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.68% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 74,482 25,948 42,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,552 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,769
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -107 102 £73,750 -4.84% 44
UK excluding London -77 57 £72,500 +20.83% 17
London -85 48 £85,000 +6.25% 35
Work from Home -46 42 £70,000 +9.38% 23
East of England -8 26 £72,500 -3.33% 1
North of England -52 13 £80,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands -41 10 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 10 £70,000 -
North East - 9 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 - 5
North West -22 4 £80,000 +33.33% 2
South East -55 1 £85,000 - 3
South West - 1 - - 1

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 September 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 113 (100.00%) Python
2 49 (43.36%) AWS
3 34 (30.09%) Software Engineering
4 33 (29.20%) AI
5 31 (27.43%) RESTful
6 29 (25.66%) CI/CD
6 29 (25.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (21.24%) Azure
7 24 (21.24%) Validation
8 21 (18.58%) API Design
8 21 (18.58%) Test Automation
9 18 (15.93%) Continuous Delivery
9 18 (15.93%) Docker
9 18 (15.93%) Event-Driven
9 18 (15.93%) FastAPI
9 18 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (15.93%) Swagger
10 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (14.16%) Kubernetes
11 16 (14.16%) Observability
12 15 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (13.27%) Generative AI
13 14 (12.39%) Agile
13 14 (12.39%) Kafka
13 14 (12.39%) Mentoring
13 14 (12.39%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (12.39%) SQL
14 13 (11.50%) Containerisation
14 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
14 13 (11.50%) MongoDB

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 49 (43.36%) AWS
2 24 (21.24%) Azure
3 11 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (9.73%) Azure Service Bus
3 11 (9.73%) Serverless
4 7 (6.19%) GitHub
4 7 (6.19%) SaaS
5 4 (3.54%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.77%) GCP
7 2 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.88%) Datadog
8 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) MQTT
2 9 (7.96%) Broadband
3 3 (2.65%) 4G
3 3 (2.65%) 5G
3 3 (2.65%) DNS
3 3 (2.65%) HTTP
3 3 (2.65%) SSH
3 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.77%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.50%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.19%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.65%) MySQL
4 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.65%) Redis
5 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.77%) GIS
6 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.88%) Milvus
6 1 (0.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Git
2 5 (4.42%) GitLab
3 4 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.65%) Selenium
General
1 14 (12.39%) Finance
2 13 (11.50%) Front Office
3 12 (10.62%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.85%) Health Technology
4 10 (8.85%) Tech for Good
5 9 (7.96%) Games
6 6 (5.31%) Banking
7 4 (3.54%) Law
7 4 (3.54%) Publishing
8 3 (2.65%) Legal
8 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (27.43%) RESTful
2 18 (15.93%) FastAPI
2 18 (15.93%) Swagger
3 14 (12.39%) Kafka
3 14 (12.39%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (9.73%) OpenAPI
4 11 (9.73%) React
5 10 (8.85%) Node.js
6 9 (7.96%) HTML
7 8 (7.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 7 (6.19%) CSS
8 7 (6.19%) Flask
9 6 (5.31%) Jinja
10 5 (4.42%) .NET
10 5 (4.42%) Pandas
10 5 (4.42%) REST
11 4 (3.54%) Next.js
11 4 (3.54%) Terraform
12 3 (2.65%) Django
12 3 (2.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.85%) Algorithms
4 9 (7.96%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.96%) Low-Code
4 9 (7.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 8 (7.08%) Equities
5 8 (7.08%) Hedge funds
5 8 (7.08%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.65%) Robotics
8 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.77%) Derivative
8 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.09%) Software Engineering
2 33 (29.20%) AI
3 29 (25.66%) CI/CD
3 29 (25.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (21.24%) Validation
5 21 (18.58%) API Design
5 21 (18.58%) Test Automation
6 18 (15.93%) Continuous Delivery
6 18 (15.93%) Event-Driven
7 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (14.16%) Observability
9 15 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (13.27%) Generative AI
10 14 (12.39%) Agile
10 14 (12.39%) Mentoring
11 13 (11.50%) Containerisation
12 11 (9.73%) Acceptance Criteria
12 11 (9.73%) Clean Code
12 11 (9.73%) DevOps
12 11 (9.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 113 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (12.39%) SQL
3 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.96%) Go
4 9 (7.96%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.08%) C++
6 4 (3.54%) Bash
6 4 (3.54%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.77%) Rust
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.77%) Degree
1 2 (1.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) QA
System Software
1 18 (15.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.54%) Grafana
3 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet